The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-01
writing 1887 to-day.
Tha ,,,nhlic cchnnls of the county Hill 1

at IL a. m. All invited.
Commence writing 1887 to-day.
The public schools of the county will re-
convene on Monday next, Sd instant.
There will be a meeting of the Baltimore
county School Board on Tuesday next 4th inst.
The County Commissioners will meet next
week as usual, when the annual appointments will
be officially announced.
Mr.. Daniel Rappanier, a we'll known young
business man of Ellicott City, died on Monday
last from an attack of malaria.
Mr. J. Polk Street,, of Hartford county,
who lately commenced the milk business in Bal
timore has disposed of his route.
Prof G. Clinton Hanna, principal of the
Towsontown public school, spent his Christmas
holiday with his parents in Frederick county.
Maurice Shankn, son of John w. Shank
lin, ESQ.,, Clerk of the Circuit Court, has been ap-
pointed clerk in the Towson National Bank.
Mr. Elisha Brown, of Upperco, 9Th district,
has lately erected very nisome monument in
St. Paul's cemetery, in memory of his late wife.
The receipts of the County Treasurer's office
on Monday and Tuesday of this week, on the levy
of 1885, were between six and seven thousand dol
lars.
DIR. R. E. Jones, an old ply stefan of Wood
berry, formerly resident of the upper end of the
county, who had been ill for some time, is now
improving.
Mr.. Noah Walker, Jr., son of the late
Patrick H. Walker, of "Dumbarton," near Pixies
willie, is spending the winter at the Carrolton
Hotel, Baltimore.
Col. Samuel N. Hyde, of Long Green VAL
ley, informs us that his entire pack of Egyptian
sweet corn and tomatoes, for the season of 1887,
has already been sold
Mr.. William Gilmor, one of the receivers
of the Maryland Central Railroad, is still suffering
from an attack of rheumatism and is confined to
his residence in the city.
On Monday, December goth, the receipts
of the BALTIC. Ohio railroad at Ellicott City
station were more than $4,000 the largest days
business ever done at that place.
The new Catholic church on the Baltimore
county side of the Patapsco, at Woodstock, is
fast nearing completion. 1t is built of granite
and will seat about 400 people.
In the last few days patents have been
granted to Louis Minch, of Highlandtown, for
cask, and to Margaret A. Sutton, Arlington, Bal
timore county, for plant protector.
Mr.. Perry Knight, of Cross Keys, Falls
road, who, as announced in HE UNION OF last
week, was critically i'll, is in slightly improved
condition. he is attended by four physicians.
THIS UNIONS Christmas turkey failed to
come to hand If the bird was Matched last sum-
mer the foxes must have got away with it in the
fall. This is the only explanation we can Offer
Mr.. Thos. C. Bruf, lately appointed Ser
geant-Major of the First Regiment l., M. N. g.,
has procured his uniform, sword, trappings, &C.
Hereafter it will be "Major" Bruff, if you please
-Messrs. J. Wesley Lee Sons, enterprising
merchants of this place, are now selling Hyde's
Egyptian sweet corn and Maryland Wonder to-
natoes. As everybody knows, these are No.
goods.
"A man named Gallagher was arrested in
Woodbury. on Tuesday, upon the charge of cruel
ly beating horse he was driving. Justice Dorsey,
before whom a hearing was had, dismissed the
charge.
An exchange remarks that strange as it
may seem, in 1887 Christmas Day will fall on
Sunday, and New Years on Saturday, and this
in spite of the fact that they are always full
week apart.
Mr. ]. Wesley Gross, an old Baltimore
county boy who was for some time engaged in
the furniture business in Baltimore, has opened
coal yard in Waverly. He is a clever fellow and
deserves success.
After day the mail route from Cuttings,
Maryland Central railroad, to Sunnybrook will be
by Long Green, Dulany's Valley, Bosley, Sunny
brook and Sweet Air, making the route equal to
about 104 miles.
Friendship Castle No. IL, Knights of the
Golden Eagle, of Eklo, 9th district, will give an
oyster supper in the Odd Fellows Hall, Middle
town, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings,
Jan. 9th, 18th and Sth.
Mr.. Ernest Iddings, of Montgomery coun-
ty, last week obtained license in Washington to
marry Miss Maria Rust, daughter of Col. Rust, OF
that city, and granddaughter of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Yellott, of Towsontown.
ALI the churches in Reisterstown held SER
vices on Christmas day and all business having
been suspended, the attendance was large. The
churches were handsomely trimmed with ever
green, &C., for the occasion.
This Saturday is the first day of the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. We hope it
may prove prosperous and happy one to all the
readers Of THE UNION, to whom we extend the
compliments of the season.
-Tha farmers of the county are invited to
meet at the Smedley House, Towsontown, We'd
nesday, Jan. 9Th, at III a. m, to elect seven dele
gates to the annual State meeting to assemble in
Baltimore, on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Mary Farnandis, mother of Hon.
Henry D. Farnandis, of Belair, celebrated her 92d
birthday on the 22d of December, upon which
occasion all her children and number of other
relatives and friends were present.
1t is said that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is manifesting considerable interest in
the projected railroad from the Susquehanna to
Belair. If this great company lends its assistance
the new road may be set down as fixed fact.
Mr.. Henry Volz, one of the successful bus
mess men of the 18th district, packed last season
about $4,000 cans of corn and tomatoes. He has
been engaged in this business about five years
and the results have proven entirely satisfactory
IF you made good resolution on the LIST
day Of January, 1885, and broke it, (which we
trust you did not) try it again to-day. Remem-
ber it is never too late to do good, and what you
failed in last year may be easily accomplished
this.
The man who ratified for turkeys and got a
dollar bird at a cost of $4.75 thought he had
done big thing, but after the swelling went out
of his head the absence of the $475 looked bigger
than the turkey. Twas ever thus at Christmas
times.
Edward A. Warner, aged citizen of
Reisterstown, while undressing for bed few
nights ago, accidentally fell against the stove and
upset it. In attempting to put the fire out Mr..
Warner was quite painfully burned about the face
and arms.
The children of Trinity P. E. Sabbath
school were given Christmas treat on Tuesday
evening Each child was presented with bag
of candy and gift of some kind. The school
numbers 100 children and DIR. G.. M. Bosley is the
superintendent.
Gen. James C. Clark president of the Hi
nois Central R. R. Company, and who was for
merly resident of this county, lately sent check
for $25 to St. Johns Episcopal Church, Harper's
Ferry, in which place Gen. Clarks early boyhood
days were spent.
The Court has appointed Messrs. John
Grason and w. Gill Smith, counsel for Marchioni,
the Italian charged with numbering Daniel Bros
nan, on the B. & o. extension, in this county, on
the 4th of April, 1885. Marchioni will be arraign-
ed next Monday.
The Baltimore Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Animals says the county police
force is inimica to its interests and opposes all
its efforts for good. This looks to us like very
sweeping charge and one that perhaps has no
foundation in fact.
Mr.. Henry G. Wilson, formerly of this
county and brother of Mr.. S. Cover Wilson, of
Towsontown, is manager of the Palo Alto sugar
plantation of Messrs. Lemann Lum, one of the
most extensive in Louisiana. He this year pro-
duced 100000 pounds of sugar, the average
weld Of sugar to the ton of cane having reached
l25 pounds, q figure seldom exceeded. Mr.. Will
SON Is spoken of as q most successful manager and
courtly gentleman.